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Re: Package initialisation in CL boot
On 12 July 2012 19:59, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> For Common Lisp it might be reasonable to use a separate package,
> for example:
> class:|java.lang.String|
> It's a tradeoff: Convenience of using COMMON-LISP-USER vs better
> of the package system for namespace separation. Helmut, what do you
> think?
So you'd check if the symbol is of the CLASS namespace, and then pull
the local name out of it and do a type lookup? Rather than my current
approach of backtracking from an error condition and trying something
new. I like this idea.
Thanks,
Charlie.